Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you had a merry christmas and wonderful New Year. This year has been a vacationing year for us. In February Stephanie took the kids to Mesa to see her sister Serina and sister-in-law Danelle because they had their babies and Stephanie wanted to see them when they were newborns. Then we went to Florida to go to Disney World with Troy and Annette. We had a blast over there. Another thing we love to do is camp. We went camping a couple of times this year. We camped up in American Fork Canyon and went to Fish Lake with Erics family, and in July we went to Lake Powell with Stephanie's family. This past summer Stefan enjoyed hiking up the "G" to the waterfalls. Stefan also started pre-school this year and is loving it. Janine loves musice so we have her in a music class that teaches notes, rythms, and songs. In the beginning she was very shy but now sings and participates in everything the teacher has planned. This past september before Stefans birthday Eric and Stephanie went to Vegas to spend some time together before we had our new baby Jacoby.

Every Christmas eve we make homemade pizza and this year we did individual pizzas so everyone got to make their own.

Christmas this year really fun. Stefan brought home some oatmeal with red glitter in a baggie from school. The oatmeal was for the reindeer to eat and the red glitter was to attract Santa and the reindeer to make sure that they came to our house. So Christmas eve stefan made sure that we went outside and sprinkled the oatmeal on the ground. Janine recieved princess stuff this year and she put the ear rings on, the bracelets, the crown and a necklace. That is who she was for the day. She was a princess and she acted like it. Stefan wanted his parents to play with him and Janine wanted to be left alone to be in her own princess world by herself. She was something else on christmas.

Stefan got a huge remote control tank from his Uncle Sterling. This thing has power. Definately not an inside toy. When that thing hit the wall we thought it would go through the wall! The thing has power.

This year eric loved Stefans toys just as much as stefan...if not a little more.

Erics main gift was the Wii Fit, Stefans was legos, Janines was a pink/purple Keyboard that came with a microphone, and Stephanie's was the Bullet Express. That thing is awesome!

Jacoby Dale Allan

Born December 10, 2009 at 2:27 p.m Jacoby Dale Allan joined our family! While it was a little rough getting him here we are so happy that he is healthy, happy and not born the week of Christmas! Stephanie was starting to wonder if this baby would ever come and Eric was praying he would be born on a Thursday. Just to explain, Thursday was just the best day of the week for Eric to take time off and wouldn't you know it little Jacoby must have listened to that conversation because he was born last Thursday! He was grunting and not breathing well so the doctors put him in the NICU (nursery intensive care unit)and we were able to bring him home sunday the 13th. We were so happy that the nurse taking care of Jacoby was the same one who took such good care of Janine when she was in there.

Stefan and Janine are so excited to have a baby brother and just love to hold him. There have already been fights about who gets to hold him first. Although Stefan thinks he is super big we must watch him and Janine at all times while holding the baby. Especially Janine. She hasn't quite figure out that you can't just toss this baby like you can her baby dolls.
We have taken many many pictures of this little guy and here are just a few for you to look at and enjoy.

ThanksGiving 2009

This year for ThanksGiving this Allan family stayed home. Stephanie is very largely pregnant and we didn't think it wise to take the risk of her having a baby anywhere but here. While we tried to convince family to come to our house.........it just didn't work out. So we had our own 15 pound turkey for just the four of us! It was awesome. We didn't even make through 1 breast!! The rest of the turkey we put in the freezer for when the baby does come and some in the fridge to eat on of course for the next couple of days. This turkey was the best tasting turkey we have ever had. Eric was simply amazing! Check it out for yourself.

All morning Eric and Stephanie make stuffing,prepared the turkey, prepped potatoes, made muffins with fruit for breakfast and had fun in the process. Before we feasted we took the kids to the park and let them play around for awhile.


Eric had extra pies from Kneaders and brought home a few while Stephanie also made a pumpkin pie and a Chocolate Pecan Pie that was sssooo good. It made the tongue slap the brain! Stephanie wanted to get a family picture for the day. we only got one shot at it and this is the outcome.
Stephanie is always the perfect temperature while pregnant...or at least she thinks so. She is fine when everyone else is freezing. Thus a fire was built and we had one for most of the day. Eric was a good sport and let the kids help build the fire. Stefan threw in wads of paper and Janine placed in the wood.